Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy

by Lode Lauwaert

Book Overview

He might be best known for sex and violence, but Lode Lauwaert shows that the Marquis du Sade sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branches of western culture: abstract art, Tom and Jerry, gnosticism, Kant's moral philosophy, romanticism, scholasticism, stoicism and more. To explore these links, Lauwaert reads six interpretations of Sade in French postwar philosophy - looking specifically at Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474430694
• ISBN13: 9781474430692
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.7"